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defeat at the Battle of the Pyramids

By July 20 the French forces had advanced to Umm Dīnār, 18 miles (29 km) north of Cairo. Scouts reported that an Egyptian force led by Murād Bey was massed on the west bank of the Nile at Embabeh, 6 miles (10 km) from Cairo and 15 miles (25 km) from the pyramids of Giza. (Though historical accounts place the size of the Egyptian force at close to 40,000 and Bonaparte himself...

role in Ottoman Empire

...the Egyptians that he came as a friend to Islam and the Ottoman sultan, to punish the usurping Mamlūks and to liberate the people. From Alexandria the French advanced on Cairo, defeating Murād Bey at Shubrākhīt (July 13), and again decisively at Imbābah, opposite Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids on July 21. Murād fled to Upper Egypt, while his...